Enjoying DKS despite a few issues…

Originally Posted by JDR13
I also agree with the claims that archery is over-powered in this game.

I guess this is the direct result of claims of the opposite for the original game. Like a pendulum swinging from one extreme into an other, perhaps ?

-- “ Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage – to move in the opposite direction.“ (E.F.Schumacher, Economist, Source)

Please just give us a hint later if dragon parts are a pain like in Ego Draconis.
I don't mean the area where you play partially as a dragon (fjords), but the areas you go from there where you're a dragon 99% of the time. Can't remember their names…

Originally Posted by joxer
the areas you go from there where you're a dragon 99% of the time.

Spoiler

I´ve only played DKS, but I know that one major change from Ego Draconis was that all but one anti-dragon zones were removed from these. Probably in relation to this, it´s very straightforward to get to the boss quarters - just find the teleporter and drop into it and I´d advise everyone to approach these areas in this manner (plus maybe dragon drop on chests), otherwise (judging by me almost clearing just one of these) it would very likely severely hurt the overall pacing and cause disconnection from the rest of the game. Basically go through them as quickly as possible, experience farming in these is meaningless anyway due to how the experience system works.
As I´ve probably already written elsewhere, BV plus just one, more detailed fortress would be enough imo.

Other than that, I really liked Orobas fjords, since they provided quite unique experience with all the vertical exploration and dragon-ing .

I don't get the complaints about the Orobas Fjords. I've been exploring that area since yesterday and enjoying it as much as the previous areas.

I'm a bit pissed off about something though…

Spoiler –After acquiring the Battle Tower…

I didn't realize so many areas were going to be closed off to me after getting the Battle Tower. There were several unique pieces of equipment I left in certain places because I didn't have room to carry them at the time, and now I guess they're lost to me.

The game warns you that you wouldn't be able to return to parts of Broken Valley after killing Laiken, but it didn't indicate that places like Sentinel Island and Maxos' Tower would also be closed off.

Originally Posted by JDR13
I don't get the complaints about the Orobas Fjords. I've been exploring that area since yesterday and enjoying it as much as the previous areas.

I think it´s just those flying fortresses, which people probably count in when talking about their Orobas fjords experiences.
As I mentioned in the above spoiler post, I think these can quite significantly taint the overall impression of the game´s second half if more time is spent in them, which is why I suggested (and suggest) going through them as fast as possible and not bothering with any on foot combat in their exterior parts at all. "Clearing" them fucks up the pacing as well as otherwise well maintained balance between combat, exploration and questing.
Good thing about DKS is that doing this is not only possible, but also that by doing so you loose very little.
In Ego Draconis, not only were the exterior parts less straightforward, but players were likely also forced to do grinding in them, because difference between player´s and enemies´ levels played a lot more significant role in combat.

Hmm I'm in Stone's flying fortress now, and this Stone guy seems *way* overpowered. He kills me in 2-3 hits, even after drinking a potion of extreme strength. I'm currently level 30. He shows as being level 27, but he hits like he's level 40 or something. Wtf?

A lot of the named characters in flying fortresses can be a bit tough, and Stone is exceptionally hard. I remember spamming potions when I needed to. I usually did a battle charge or a vortex slash (can't remember the correct name) then jumped away immediately after.

Fortunately, the others should be a bit of a breeze and they don't seem to hit nearly as hard, but they're usually accompanied by one or two others.